Management system, management program-recorded recording medium, and management method

• US 20070180117A1
• Filed: 03/28/2006
• Published: 08/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Yasuhide, Yasaki, Masatomo, Uyama, Masashi
• Granted Patent: US 8,751,653 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/00 Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring error detection, correction or monitoring in information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B20/18; monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing G11B27/36; in static stores G11C29/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5088 involving task migration
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A management system for managing a plurality of computers and a plurality of pieces of software in a computer center includes: a selection data storage part for storing data regarding allocation destination selection, the data including at least either one of operation data and temperature data, wherein the operation data represent states of execution of the pieces of software by the computers, respectively, and temperature data represent temperature distribution in the computers; an instruction generation part for extracting an overheated computer that is assumed to emit more heat as compared with the other computers, and a less-heated computer that is assumed to emit less heat as compared with the other computers, by using the data regarding allocation destination selection, and generating an instruction for relocating at least a part of a piece of software allocated to the overheated computer to the less-heated computer; and an instruction part for outputting the instruction. This makes it possible to save energy for cooling the computers.

Claims

1. A management system for, in a computer center in which a plurality of computers including hardware are provided, managing the computers and pieces of software allocated to and executed by the computers, respectively, the management system comprising:

a selection data storage part for storing data regarding allocation destination selection, the data including at least either one of operation data and temperature data, wherein the operation data including sets of operation data, each set representing a state of execution of one piece of software by the computer to which the piece of software is allocated, and the temperature data represent temperature distribution in the computers;

an instruction generation part for extracting, from the computers, an overheated computer that is assumed to emit more heat as compared with the other computers, and a less-heated computer that is assumed to emit less heat as compared with the other computers, by using the data regarding allocation destination selection, and generating an instruction for relocating at least a part of a piece of software allocated to and executed by the overheated computer to the less-heated computer; and

an instruction part for outputting the instruction.

2. The management system according to claim 1, further comprising a cost data storage part for storing cost data, the cost data including air conditioning cost data used in calculation of an air conditioning cost for controlling temperatures in the computers or in the vicinities thereof, and operation cost data used in calculation of an operation cost for operating the computers,

wherein the instruction generation part extracts the overheated computer and the less-heated computer by using the data regarding allocation destination selection, and calculating an air conditioning cost as well as an operation cost in the case where at least a part of the software allocated to the overheated computer is relocated to the less-heated computer, by using the cost data, and generates the instruction in the case where it determines from the air conditioning cost and the operation cost that an electric power cost can be reduced by relocating at least a part of the piece of software allocated to the overheated computer to the less-heated computer.

3. The management system according to claim 1, wherein each set of the operation data includes load data representing a load applied to the computer when the computer executes the piece of software allocated thereto.

4. The management system according to claim 1, wherein each set of the operation data includes operating entity data about an operating entity that performs business operations by utilizing the computer and the piece of software allocated thereto.

5. The management system according to claim 1, wherein each set of the operation data includes activation data representing a state of activation of the piece of software activated by the computer to which the piece of software is allocated.

6. The management system according to claim 1, wherein each set of the operation data includes structure data representing at least either one of a structure of the hardware of the computer and a structure of the piece of software allocated thereto.

7. The management system according to claim 1, further comprising an allocation policy storage part for storing an allocation policy in an updatable state, the allocation policy including data representing a condition of a state of execution of software by a computer under which the computer is determined to be an overheated computer, and a condition of a state of execution of software by a computer under which the computer is determined to be a less-heated computer,

wherein the instruction generation part extracts the overheated computer and the less-heated computer based on the conditions indicated by the allocation policy and the states of execution of the software by the computers indicated by the operation data, and generates the instruction.

8. The management system according to claim 7, wherein

the allocation policy further include data representing a condition of temperature under which a computer is determined to be an overheated computer, and a condition of temperature under which a computer is determined to be a less-heated computer, wherein the instruction generation part extracts the overheated computer and the less-heated computer based on the conditions indicated by the allocation policy and temperature distribution indicated by the temperature data, and generates the instruction.

9. A recording medium storing a management program for causing a management computer to execute processing for, in a computer center in which a plurality of computers including hardware are provided, managing the computers and pieces of software allocated to and executed by the computers, respectively, the management program allowing the management computer to execute:

selection data reading processing for reading data regarding allocation destination selection from a storage part of the management computer, the data regarding allocation destination selection including at least either one of operation data and temperature data, wherein the operation data include sets of operation data that represent states of execution of the pieces of software by the computers, respectively, and temperature data represent temperature distribution in the computers;

instruction generating processing for extracting, from the computers, an overheated computer that is assumed to emit more heat as compared with the other computers, and a less-heated computer that is assumed to emit less heat as compared with the other computers, by using the data regarding allocation destination selection, and generating an instruction for relocating at least a part of a piece of software allocated to the overheated computer to the less-heated computer; and

instructing processing for outputting the instruction.

10. A management method for, in a computer center in which a plurality of computers including hardware are provided, managing the computers and pieces of software allocated to and executed by the computers, respectively, by using a management computer, the method comprising:

an operation executed by an instruction generation part provided in the management computer for reading data regarding allocation destination selection from a storage part of the management computer, the data regarding allocation destination selection including at least either one of operation data and temperature data, wherein the operation data include sets of operation data that represent states of execution of the pieces of software by the computers, respectively, and temperature data represent temperature distribution in the computers;

an operation executed by the instruction generation part provided in the management computer for extracting, from the computers, an overheated computer that is assumed to emit more heat as compared with the other computers, and a less-heated computer that is assumed to emit less heat as compared with the other computers, by using the data regarding allocation destination selection, and generating an instruction for relocating at least a part of software allocated to the overheated computer to the less-heated computer; and

an operation executed by an instruction part provided in the management computer for outputting the instruction.